(n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) But if books are sixpence each you are not going to buy 10 of them, because you don’t want as many as 10.” Natalie Haynes is author of The Amber Fury
(2) Current trails include Birmingham’s anti-slavery landmarks, a tour of city life living on sixpence a day during the 18th and 19th centuries, and a more contemporary side of Birmingham following sculptures around the city.
(3) From 1901 the Antrobus family, who owned the site, charged sixpence admission.
(4) We crept out of a back door and went to a club where a girl was dancing in a bird cage, and sitting on a mezzanine above us we saw Lionel Jeffries and the producer Robert Lynn dropping sixpences on her head.
(5) "I believe that a good penny and sixpence store, run by a live Yankee, would be a sensation here," he wrote in his diary.
(6) You reel back at Cohn’s words, and wonder why anyone would even bother listening to Tex’s records, but then he turns on a sixpence and reels you in with a couple of lines: “He’s funny, he really is, and he obviously enjoys himself.
(7) Cisse turns on a sixpence on the edge of the area, working himself space for a shot.
(8) YES: Jay Rayner, Observer restaurant critic In the old days, the only way to make money out of a Christmas pudding was by getting lucky and almost choking on the foil-wrapped sixpence that your mother had secreted there.
(9) But the full quote from Orwell runs: "The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them."
(10) Makeshift centre-forward Gerard Pique shows the Big Game Bottler Other Big Game Bottlers doff their hats to how it's done by picking up a defence-splitting through-ball from Xavi, drawing Julio Cesar towards him, turning on a sixpence and slotting the ball into an empty goal from 12 yards.
(11) Jack Straw , a former Labour foreign secretary, said: "When things are relatively calm, suspicions, fantasies and sometimes paranoia can take off about the so-called secret state but the moment there is a serious threat of an outrage the very same people and newspapers turn on a sixpence and they demand [to know why] there has been a failure by the intelligence agencies."
(12) What a brilliant finish from Cousin, who takes up the ball in the box with his back to goal, turns 180 degrees on a sixpence to confuse Anderson beyond all reason, and wheechs a thunderous shot past Vercoutre.
(13) Bearing that in mind, Heston has stuffed the tangerine (well, orange) inside your Christmas pud, inviting you to play hunt the orange, not the sixpence.
(14) Helpfully, Amazon explains: “Yes, George Orwell was suggesting collusion.” And that’s true – so long as you come in halfway through his sentence which reads, in its entirety: “The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” It’s a compliment, not a manifesto.
(15) It was never in George Orwell’s interest to suppress paperback books — he was wrong about that.” Well, he would have been, if the full quote – about publisher Penguin’s introduction of paperback books – hadn’t been this: “The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” Several sites have already called Amazon out on its partial quote – notably TechCrunch , which described the decision as “horrible” while noting that “it’s clear that Orwell is praising the paperback, not arguing for its abolition”.
(16) Did my father give the local farmer sixpence to allow us entry?
(17) Bruce Ross-Smith Oxford • In Richard Hoggart's obituary, you recall that he wrote of seeing his widowed mother "standing frozen, while tears start slowly down her cheeks because a sixpence has been lost … you do not easily forget".
(18) In Micawber's example, the deficit is sixpence; in the case of the UK, it is £159.2bn – but the principle is the same.
(19) Even I don't sentimentalise them, and I sentimentalise everything , from crap 80s Chevy Chase comedies I saw as a kid to crap 1990s film soundtracks I liked as a teenager (Lisa Loeb, Sixpence None the Richer, the Cardigans – you are not forgotten ).
(20) Except that Gowing strongly recommended a new patent stylographic pen, which cost me nine and sixpence, and which was simply nine and sixpence thrown in the mud."
Tizzy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This sent a faction of Veronica Mars fans into a Team Logan or Team Piz tizzy.
(2) For an album that was audibly in a dreadful tizzy about the state of the world, OK Computer's long-awaited follow-up managed to sound enormously pleased with itself.
(3) She only recently started adding captions, preferring to upload an image and let her fans work themselves up into a tizzy of double-taps, heart-eye emojis and frantic comments professing their love for her.
(4) But after an incident involving a “quadcopter” and a possibly drunken government employee sent the White House into lockdown and DC into a tizzy this week, at least one unmanned vehicle company is preparing to assist the feds.
(5) All of which, predictably, has got Hollywood in a bit of a tizzy.
(6) Jonas Clark of Manchester Township, New Jersey – in the area where Sandy was projected to come ashore – stood outside a convenience store, calmly sipping a coffee and wondering why people were working themselves "into a tizzy".